Dainius Zubrus is usually in charge of the dressing room music before games, filling his iPod with motivational music. But there has been some sniping about his choice of tunes.

"There's not a whole lot of country and, on this team, my stock has gone down because of that," Zubrus said. "But I'm holding my ground. It's called my iPod, and not somebody else's, for a reason. It's my iPod."

But now, Zach Parise has stepped up, and his iPod was used before the Nov. 1 game against Atlanta.

"It's tough to keep the room happy," said Parise, whose iPod has Pearl Jam, Breaking Benjamin and others. "But we're going out to play a game and Katy Perry comes on. That doesn't really get me fired up. And 'Are We Human?' That's not going to be on my playlist. Next thing you know we're going to have 'I Kissed A Girl.'"

The sniping is good-natured, but right now Zubrus is feeling the heat.

"Quite a bit of R&B," he said. "Lots of alternative rock. Before games I try to mix it up, and you have guys who favor rock more and, for some guys, you throw a little hip hop in there. It's all good."